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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what does the narrator see beneath the milk-churn table?
(a) Buttercups.
(b) Golden dandelions.
(c) White and yellow daisies.
(d) A bluebell.

2. In Chapter 7, what is the weather like when the narrator awakens?
(a) Rainy.
(b) Cold and cloudy.
(c) Sunny and warm.
(d) Stormy.

3. Where is the opal miner said to be from?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Australia.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) United States.

4. In Chapter 2, how many weeks of vacation from school does the narrator get?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

5. In Chapter 6, where does the narrator’s mother get a job?
(a) Eagle Vision.
(b) Third Avenue Eye Care.
(c) Dicksons Opticians.
(d) Jensen Optometrists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellen Henderson send the narrator on his birthday in Chapter 3?

2. In Chapter 2, what color is the washbasin in the narrator’s room?

3. What is the narrator’s laboratory in actuality?

4. Where does the narrator meet Lettie in Chapter 3?

5. When the Hempstocks came from the old country and brought the farm, what did Gran call the things that were brought with it?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the narrator like to read on nice spring days?

2. How does Lettie find the way to the creature to bind it in Chapter 4?

3. What does Mr. Wollery find in the garden in Chapter 3?

4. How does the narrator describe the lane that he drives in the Prologue?

5. How does the narrator describe his seventh birthday party in Chapter 1?

6. How does the narrator describe the clearing that he and Lettie enter in their search for the creature in Chapter 4?

7. Why does the opal miner give the narrator a cat in Chapter 1?

8. How does the narrator get rid of the worm after removing it from his foot?

9. Who steals the narrator’s father’s car in Chapter 2? Why?

10. Why does the narrator have to share a room with his sister in Chapter 2?

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